are in their paths, and the way of peace they fhall never know, feeing God is about to enter into controverfy with all flesh, for their rifing up against the miniftration of the Spirit. And therefore be wife here, I beseech you, that in the fhattering of the nation (if there be no remedy) you may be kept together as a blessed remnant, and a hopeful feed of the following generation.

To conclude, Honourable and Worthy, we will be willingly contented to do and fuffer all things with you; we will chearfully run through honour and dishonour with you; fame and infamy, gain and lofs, trouble and quietnefs, war and peace, life and death; and do defire to reserve nothing to ourselves, Nifi unicum verbum domini, but only the word of God, in its own purity and liberty, to preach it, and to publish it, and to profess it, and to practife it, for the glory of God and his only begotten Son, and for the good of his kingdom, and this kingdom.

And thus much unto you from the Lord.

By WILLIAM DELL,

One of the leaft and unworthieft of the Servants of God, in the Gospel of his dear Son.

PSA L. CXX. 7.

I am for peace; but when I fpeak, they are for war.

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to fettle and establish that upon a right and fure foundation; fo God hath engaged my heart, to meditate the peace of the church. And though I have excluded your power from having a hand in this work, yet I have not in any measure wronged you, as you fhall perceive, but rather endeavoured to preferve you from dafhing yourselves against that Rock, against which, all the ignorant and unwife rulers and kingdoms of the world, both have and yet fhall, dash themselves in pieces. It fhall be your wifdom to be built up, together with the church, on Chrift; but it would be your confufion, to go. about to build the church on yourselves and your power; feeing this building is too weighty for any foundation, but Chrift himself. Your power will do well in the kingdoms of the world, but not in God's kingdom, which is Chrift's inheritance, from the beginning to the end. You fhall be happy to be fubject in it, but none must be lord or law-giver here, but Chrift himself. Let not the devil, who in thefe last times hath in many places tranflated the mystery of iniquity, from the ecclefiaftical kingdom of the clergy, into the temporal kingdom of the magiftrate, any longer keep it there; feeing it will be as pernicious in this, as in that: for it will be no lefs dangerous an evil, for the magiftrate to make himfelf lord and lawgiver in the church, than for the Pope, or general Council, in all the kingdoms called chriftian; or for the Archbishop, or national Affembly in particular kingdoms. Men have commonly thought, that to preferve the godly in worldly peace and profperity, is to preferve the church; whereas, to preferve them in faith, hope, love, in union